Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-12
Correspondence of THE MINIR-
BUTTE MAN ABROAD.

Correspondence of The M1NIR-
10 A BUTTE MAN ABROAD.
'r His Experience With Montana Banana
: How Omaha Was Named-His
Trouble With Feronia-Butte
Girls.
CHICAGO, January 2, 1SS7.-Butts ha
Il lots to BE- proud OF. She has the honor o
being the greatest mining camp On earth
b citizens whose enterprise and g~o-aheadative
ness cannot be squalled, and, best OF all
her happy location in the very heart ane
t center Of the great Montana
Is BANANA BELT.
The day l left town / plucked-what 8
nice, old-fashionsd word that is, plucked-
!. . dozen or 80 Of the luscious fruit of thu
. trees in trent of tho courthouse to bring
. . east as presents to my friends, knowing
: what q treat = Montann banana would b.
. in the arctic rsgionsof Chicago. wrapped
the fruit carefully in red flannel and put it
in my satehel, never doubling but it would
be safe. After
i LOPpING AROUND
: in q narrow-gaugs sleeper all night, We ar
rived in Pocatello at Z .. m. to find it blis-
harding q blizzard from way back, l BE-.
thonght me of my precious bananas and
flew to the satchel to find them-alas! alas!
with hands and feet frozen past all recogni-
ton, stone dead. l gathered them up ten
derly to east out into the snow, whsn the
brakeman sspied me-, and, snatching them
from me. jammed one down a. he would .
coupling-p pin to hold the cars together. So
they are not entirely lost. hut are now do
ing duty a. couplipg-pins On the o. T. road.
This little incident may open up q new
source of wealth to eur practical money
making citizens, for, should tho mines ever
peter out, tho whole country could 70 to
raising and freezing bananas, and thus be
able to supply the whole world, as it were,
with coupling-pins. It wal Is degrees be-
low and tho wind blowing = gale when l got
to Chicago. The whole city was frozen
into q compact lump, and they were tele-
graphing to St. Louis to come over and
THAw Then OUT.
There has always been a warm feeling be-
tween the two towns, and for once it could
be OF some benefit to some one besides the
paragraphers.. Speaking OF photographers
reminds me OF o pretty little story, or
rather legend I heard m the train regarding
| the origin OF the word "Omaha," q hand.
some little city wa passed through en- route.
The gentleman telling the story looked and
talked 80 innocent and truthful, and
seemed to tell it with 50 much enjoyment I
believed the story. And I think few will
doubt it. It seems some eleven years ago
when Omaha was still in the womb Of
standard time the site of that now thirty |
ing city-what a delicious old chestnut
"thriving city" is, eh?-was the home OF a
small tribe OF wild and woody Indians
exactly like the pictures on the small bills,
aud they raised corn and made their own j,
whisky that was called fire water by them
but il l was to write it that way some one
would surely
RING A C~HESTNUT.BELL |
on mo-, and the legend says it was mighty
good whisky too. Well, one day two
real woody Indians were out in = field a
short distance from their wickyup hoeing
corn when one broke the handle right
smack of his little hoe. Hoe, it was awful.
He sat down and began sobbine bitterly,
and his co-hoer, nothing 10th, sat down
and fell to sobbing too. As they we're both
sobbing thus, two Boston gentlemen, with
%no;v r@,,sap~ .k,,c1r - <1S:. l,ook. rl-
were out prospecting for the North pole,
came by, and seeing the terrible distress of
the Indians, and how horribly blue these
poor red men were, they queried
WHY DO rHoUEsr WEEP"
They received no reply. Again they
asked "Whyest do thou weep" Still no
answer. So once more they questioned
"Why do thou weepest?" Becoming exas-
perated at receiving no recognition what
ever they demanded in ringing tones "What
city Hest yon?" pointing to the cabins and
~wickyups that browsed close by. At this
point one Of the blue red men felt some
thing crawling up his back and in reaching
to scratch it, caught sight Of the injured
hoe handle. His lamentations broke forth
airesh and he fairly yelled:
''oH-MY-HoE."
"Omaha, eh ?" answered the white man,
Thanks, very" and they passed on. Thus
a little misunderstanding named q great
city. This was all before Omaha was a
great city, so good natured and full of
laughter, that it was anxious to fill the
whole world with it's O~ma-ha-ha's by pub
fishing a daily paper full OF them. This
legend is simple, it 10 natural, it bears the
OF truth on it's very face, and shows
a man how needful it 10 to tell the truth at
ell times, and also how easy it is to name {
city il a man only knows how. =
LOGAN. OUR LOGAN" |,
is dead. He was a man so thoroughly (
American in everything, in character. in I
appearance. in principle. In the hearts OF +
the people he probably held a place second :
to Grant, and both political parties can ;
we'll lay aside their differences for the time :
to mutually lament the loss of SO good and 9
greats man. =
When | am ava from home | always
ike to take q good look at the girls. Now
When | am near the pride OF my life-Fero- I
objects. as it were, and OF course, /
midi besides my wife is occasionally Attic r
led with spells OF green moustsria, and at r
'uch times l am exceedingly careful OF how, t
when and where, ! am even polite to the t
'sntler sex. 1t was during my b
PILGRIMAGE TO MONTANA, a
md while in the dininsroom at the St. =
Paul depot, som years back, that one of :,
hose worst attacks occurred. At the !;
Ibove named establishment the walters -
ire all mattresses, and l was seated be- !.
'ween my twins, Sweetis and Lovey, with :,
ny dear wife Feronia directly opposite, %
a lean, sandy.haired girl, with a very q
hort and very full pink dress and her '
undkerchief pinned before her for an
lpron. came up aid said, ''Carony Soup" a
She caught my eye as she said it, and t.
observed she wanted to airt. A
to be real truthful about the matter, Il
DID NOT, e
or my vile had discovered tho fact a. soon y
IS l, and tho looks she gave that girl, and ~
he looks she gave me made the "'carony" -
CUP stick in my epiglottis, or something. u
n making frantic efforts to avoid the girls y
ye, and supply the twins with "mo7e." -
g fast as they called for it the dinner q
'alf hou passed. Feronia ate little, l ate r
and hen the young ones began to run -
yer | thought they were fulI enonoh AZ =